https://x.com/yahagistable/status/2115179748435665043?a=rzCVC5DRNZTrrRYCF2E&s=20

He's so cute... But then you see other pics of him and he's also so cool, I really hope he wins the Autumn Tenno Sho! That's my grayish son!!!

Croix du Nord is beeg (and I know that Papa is beeg too). He looks especially tall if you see a picture of Masquerade Ball right after 😭

https://x.com/SportsCh4tter/status/2114899256415035444

(Source @BreedersCup)

13 out of 14 horses in this race are proven G1 winners. The most number of G1 winners in a race this year. It's only him that doesn't have a G1 win to his name.

Anyways, it's a spectacular field overall. Go, Pumo!

Maurice giant jump

Yep, if Tabaru is in good condition, he will run in both Japan Cup and Arima Kinen after racing in L'Arc.

Btw Admire Terra will head straight to Arima Kinen.

And if Going to Sky participates in Japan Cup or Arima Kinen, he will probably have a new jockey.

New format I thought I'd try after seeing someone suggest it in the comments, feel free to tell me what you think about this and what you thought the main reasons for Sunday's result were.

with body like that its basically a surewin look at the likes too, its four times higher than cdn and mb, actually freest G1 lmaoooooooooo

With her last run was mixed Sapporo 2-year-old Stakes and finishing 2nd with 6 lengths behind Shonan Galleon, now girl going to try become one of the final pieces for retired Win Bright.

I'm gonna borrow a quote from a twitter user: danon decile is a modern equine masterpiece. how does he keep doing it? every time i think "he can't look any better than this", his body gets tighter and more muscular. he is beautiful, and his chestnut coat is the best.

And as always, his conformation photo gains the most attractions.

The fact these 2 only had 2 kids together is criminal. Deep Impact and Black Tide sire lines are just crazy

Breeder's Cup Classics (8 Total): Forever Young 5 | T O Password 1

Breeder's Cup Turf (14 Total): Deep Monster 14

Breeder's Cup Mile (14 Total): Lugal 10 | Ask Ikigomi 5

Breeder's Cup Sprint (13 Total): T O Elvis 11 | American Stage 6

Breeder's Cup Dirt Mile (11 Total): Lord Fons 6

https://x.com/tospo_keiba/status/2114519286001947023

An excerpt from the article (MTL):

Retirement at the end of this year is a foregone conclusion. "I would like to see him race for as long as possible, but to ensure a safe retirement and a life as a stud horse, I think the end of his five-year-old season is the most realistic timing." At the Select Sale in July, he hinted at the possibility of participating in the Arima Kinen, but at this point he said, "I'm still undecided. I think I'll consult with trainer Yahagi after the Breeders' Cup Classic and make a final decision." He also said that the location where he will be kept as a stud horse after retirement is "almost decided," and that a final contract will be signed and an official announcement made after the Breeders' Cup Classic.

悪意はありません‼

She's showing good result in tokyo and its also raining, is she gonna be candidate for the next hanshin merchant?

Also her mask is kinda cute

Edit : her L3F is also quite fast with 34.2s, and its the fastest at that race

And so the third of the "E" siblings will soon begin her racing career. Let's see what she got. I believe I no longer have to introduce the jockey that will most likely ride her.

I was looking at Kanaloa kids when I realised Bakushin is the damsire for Reve as well. I thought it was quite interesting how he seems to be doing much better as a damsire.

First of all I was curious about how much more prospect there is for him being damsire and I'm glad to say he has had plenty of support. From 1995 to 2011 he has had 1568 registered runner (to avoid early deaths didn't count foals but possible some went to just broodmare too increasing the count by justt a bit). And he actually seems to have been a very good sire in win%, out of 1,418 starters he has 1009 winners and 176 placers. I'll get to his major winners afterwards but I think this win ratio already makes him a very useful sire.

Sons

Most successful son was Grand Prix Boss who won Asahi hai and NHK Mile, 2 G1. After initial big success he started struggling to win in big races however, still did alright but but retired at age 6 with a more iffy looking record compared to initial success, did place in 3 G1 and take two G1 but very varied results. He did get good support initially but this quickly dropped it seems, I think that is still a nice WR but he did not produce any big winners best being a G3 winner.

Big Arthur a sire you still see in lists. A nice looking record (bit of ALW farming) then Takamatsunomiya and G2. Sire record honestly looks worse than the son above but this time there are 2 G2 winners.

Shonan Kampf nice looking record on this one, won Takamatsunomiya and 1 G2. This one didn't get much support at all and I'm not too sure why but probably unpopular damsire line being a mix of a Nijinsky son and China Rock, other two did have well respected damsires being SS and King Mambo. one G2 winner.

As a Damsire

Compared he has had obviously more success as a damsire.

Kitasan Black and Satono Reve I don't think I need to mention.

Kamunyak a Oaks winner that placed in Victoria mile and won 3 G2 races. We will see her racing for a while more and she will add more success to this probably.

First Force not the best records, then won Takamatsunomiya.

All in all, it's pretty fucking obvious this man does way better as a damsire. Simply given the two world class products in Kitasan and Reve. But not like there is a pattern to this either, one is Black Tide other is Kanaloa. Hopefully they keep sending more good daughters of his to leading sires given the hits this has produced.

Own pedigree

Took interest to this ofc. Had heard before about how pedigree is stayer focus but then he turned out to be sprinter. And I mean look at this, that's a sprinter if I've ever seen one. So thought I'll take a look at what happened here.

So here is the pedigree.

Tesco Boy side we know, it's pretty good on stamina but not like stamina exclusive, there are Satsuki Sho winners and some sprint winners too. Cant quite find Never Beat records but Never Say Die seems to be good on stamina with Derby and Leger win and passing it on often. Hyperion is the Stamina god and Your Highness also seems to be a stamina guy.

As for the dad himself his best other progeny outside of Bakushin is Air Jihad, so well seems he wasn't very stamina in stud at all. He himself ran usual middle distances.

Probably the source of should've been stamina horse, Taste. This guy being closely inbred to hyperion was known to be big on stamina so probably this stamina guy and middle distance Yutaka O cross was expected to be a middle/stayer.

As for the others Ambiotrix seems to be short distance horse and Gallant man should have some stamina being a mile/middle horse but on dirt.

What do I make of this? who's genes hit? idk

I'm guessing the Nasrullah inbreed on the dad hit though. I reckon Bakushin is C/T looking at how made both a great stayer and a sprinter (I'm just amateur making guesses).

to support reconstruction efforts for kumamoto earthquake.

love that it is named to the horse. 🙏